Killzone, if you don't know, had some absolutely magnificent lore behind it – Guerrilla Games just botched the storytelling time after time again. Horizon: Zero Dawn is a second chance for the studio to tell an interesting tale, then – and we're part nervous, part excited to see whether the Dutch developer can deliver.
Senior producer Mark Norris thinks that by balancing the approach from open world games and traditional role-playing releases, it's going to have a lot of success. "I think that you can expect […] an incredibly rich story," he told DualShockers. "It's always interesting that open world games ordinarily fall into one of two camps."
Norris explained that there are games like Assassin's Creed, which are primarily about the protagonist, and others like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which are more interested in the world. Horizon: Zero Dawn, apparently, will fulfil both categories. "We want to tell the story of Aloy," he said. "But we also want to tell the story of the machines, the story of the world, and the story of the tribes."
We're a teensy bit worried that this is going to suffer from Ubisoft syndrome, and you're going to be killing off big machines to liberate the post-apocalyptic lands – but hopefully that's not the case. It's unclear whether we'll be seeing any more of the game during Sony's press conference in Paris tomorrow, but we can always hope, eh?
[source dualshockers.com]
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This game has the potential to have a really engrossing and interesting story. Im really interested in finding out what happen to the previous civilization, how these dinosaur robots came to become the dominate species, who made them and why, and weather or not there is an enemy thats controls them. Im also looking forward to learning more about the world as it is now, other tribes, and of course Aloy.
If Guerrilla pull it off Horizon ZD could be my GOTY 2016. Fingers crossed. I also hope they keep the music from the trailer and use it for the main. theme.
First you brag about your clouds and now your story. Is there a game under there in 5 press releases time?
I always appreciate a game having a strong story, but similar claims were made about Destiny on the lead up to that being released, and we all know how awful that turned out. I really enjoyed the story for Killzone 2 & 3 though so fingers crossed this will be good fun as well.
I doubt it. I very much hope my cynicism is misplaced though. Please just don't add 300 side quests irrelevant to the main story simply just to beef out a meaningless trophy list.
Sorry there were a couple of typos in that article. I've fixed it now!
I liked the story in Killzone 2. It was epic and had its moments which wowed me. However Killzone 3 was awful from a story telling point of view. Shadow Fall was mediocre.
I hope it's pretty good. I've never played Killzone so I can't comment on that, but hopefully the developer knows what they're doing.
Just don't pre-order
Yes! Story is one of the best part of some games! And a must to almost every game.
So glad I've avoided Ubisoft open worlds for years, I'll be able to jump into this open-minded if it is a liberate-em-up.
@Volcanox
They already showed how the game plays at E3.
I can't wait for this!
Just give me a release date! Or at least a rough idea... Feels like this had been dragged out to long now
It sounds more like they are aiming for The Witcher rather than an Ubisoft game, as that is about both Geralt and the world he is in. This game could be phenomenal and from what what has been shown so far the combat looks amazing. Hopefully they will get everything else right because at the moment I'm looking forward to this as much as Uncharted
My hopes are very high on this game, i feel like it can fill the gap the witcher 3 is gonna leave, i think it's already obvious that Horizon will easily crush scalebound from xbox, i just hope they take good care of the story as mentioned.
Make it a Shared Universe with Killzone Franchise like MCU and it would blow the gaming industry. The PSEU - PlayStation Extended Universe!
Reminded me of Super Smash, lmfao.
This game looks really cool but rewatching the conference footage I figured out why I liked it - it reminds me of Monster Hunter. Anyone else see the resemblance?
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